On walking meditation one is advised to be concentrated on the 3 phases of walking: observing the raise of the feet, the pushing forwared movement and the pressing feeling when touching the ground. Later one must learn to do the same but getting attention to 6 phases instead of 3. Now, my question is: should you do that always concentrated on the same foot or do you alternate your attention to the feet? For example, should i get attention to:1) raise, push, press, raise, push, press, raise...always on one of the feet (for example, always the left foot).

Do you think that the second style on my list is harder or easier than the first? At first glance, when i think of it, it seems more easy to get attention only in one foot [style 1 on my list], but if you were teached to the with both feet [style 2], thats probably because its better. Masters woudnt teach something inferior. Even so, i wonder why they prefer style 2.

Do you think that the second style on my list is harder or easier than the first? At first glance, when i think of it, it seems more easy to get attention only in one foot [style 1 on my list], but if you were teached to the with both feet [style 2], thats probably because its better. Masters woudnt teach something inferior. Even so, i wonder why they prefer style 2.

By the way, whats the main different between Mahasi style and others?

Thanks a lot again.

Personally, I don't see much difficulty in version 2 as I think it doesn't take much additional effort by focusing on both feet. However that said, version 1 is not wrong either. If a teacher assigns one to concentrate on one foot at a time before focusing on both feet, I see no issue. This may be dependent upon how much focus the pracititioner learning lacks.

In terms of other styles besides Mahasi, I wouldn't know as I've only read about other styles of vipassana like Goenka's body scanning, or just focusing on the feeling of the breath leaving and entering through the nose.

How foolish you are, grasping the letter of the text and ignoring its intention! - Vasubandhu